Here
are some pictures of the last model I've made. It was built right from the box.
I've only added seat belts that I made from lead foil that came from an empty
Tamiya putty tube. It was really a lot of fun to build this kit since all the
parts fit together very well. I used Tamiya and Vallejo Model Air
acrylic paints together with my Hansa airbrush. The decals gave me a
real headache. After applying the softening solution on the decals a lot of wrinkles
appeared, which is normal, but they didn't disappear completely after drying and
that made me really very nervous. So I applied some more solution several
times until most of the wrinkles were gone. The last wrinkles were hidden
by painting them with silver paint to simulate scratches in the paintwork. The
decals are caught between two layers of Model Air gloss varnish. Panel lines
were darkened with burned umber and black artist oil paint. Oil and
fuel streaks were also painted with artist oil paint. I used titanium white
artist oil paint to wash the camouflage and the roundels to simulate the fade of
the colours by the sun. Some sand coloured pastel dust was applied to the tires
and the sides of the fuselage.
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The aircraft was
first placed on a base plate with autumn atmosphere. But this was the base plate
of my 1/48 Tamiya RAF Mustang III, I made previously so I made a new base
plate this time suggesting summertime.
I started
modelling when I was a kid, but between my let's say 20 and 32 I didn't build
anything. At that time the books from Verlinden were my learning aids. Two years
ago on a trip to France a found L'encyclopédie du modélisme Tome 1. Les avions, sous
la direction de Rodrigo Hernandez Cabos, Histoire & Collections. This was
the trigger together with the birthday present from my wife (a 1/40 scale radio
controlled U-boat from robbe) to awaken the virus again. The French magazine Wing
Master taught me a lot about the modern techniques and tricks like pre shading,
silver coloured pencils, the use of blue tack to create soft edge
camouflage, ect... A lot of things changed in 15 years and the
evolution is still going on. It's a really nice hobby.
Greetings from
Belgium.
Michel
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